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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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  • Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

    2025-07-15 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre

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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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Día de San Ricardo

2015-04-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Today is the saint’s day for San Ricardo. If you know any Richards, or Ricardos, or El Richi Boys, you

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The Oldest Bar in the Paso del Norte

2015-04-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You probably think you’ve been to the oldest bar in Juarez. Well I hate to burst your bubble. And I

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Bowling for Life?

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this photo by Rudy Gutierrez? That guy is 87 years old. He looks like he’s sixty. He’s

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No, really, I’m serious

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You know, downtown El Paso is blighted by vacant lots. Prime real estate. Vacant lots. I was thinking, what those

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Crossing Over

2015-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Do you need a passport to come back from Mexico? Longtime Juarez day-tripper Tom doesn’t think so. “I never bring

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Is he just baiting me?

2015-03-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Noted helicopter blogger David K had this to say in a recent column about the new ordinance the City is

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Well, that’s a surprise

2015-03-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The owners of the blog site Building San Jacinto Plaza have shut it down. Now we’ll never know.

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Monarch (It’s Comfortable!)

2015-03-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized 5 comments

Are you still officing out of Starbucks? You should fold up your portfolio and move it over to Monarch. Monarch

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Hot Potato

2015-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story problem in political calculus: If you were elected to public office, and the previous administration had incurred

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The Chicano Mexican-American Hispanic Cultural Museum

2015-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

What we don’t need is another museum downtown that gets as much traffic as a mausoleum. How about, instead of

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Managing the Public Image

2015-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a report that Mexico paid Sony big bucks not to cast our southern neighbor in a negative, though perhaps

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Would you let your daughter date a guy like that?

2015-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Imagine if our local government were a person. Would you want that person for a friend? Would you trust that

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The Downtown Paradox

2015-03-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

The buildings all sell for millions of dollars, but you can rent them for hundreds. Everybody’s holding out for the

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NASA Scientist Says California Has One Year of Water Left

2015-03-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an Op-Ed from the LA Times, in which a NASA scientist claims that the Golden State is running dry.

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The Wall Street Journal on Public Money for Professional Sports Stadiums

2015-03-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

You guys may have missed the story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal titled “Pro Stadiums, Public Money.” It’s behind a

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Why you should get a passport

2015-03-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Forget, for a moment, that you live on an international border, and that going to Juarez is probably the most

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Caballo Blanco Ultra Cancelled, a victim of progress

2015-03-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Last weekend organizers cancelled an ultra-marathon in the Copper Canyon shortly before it was scheduled to start. You can read

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Hornswoggled again?

2015-03-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You’d think that our local newspapers would be a bit leery of the propaganda coming out of the City by

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Beating Climate Change, Desertification, and World Hunger

2015-03-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a TED talk that tackles all the most significant crises threatening our survival on the planet, founded in uncommon

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Devitalizing Downtown

2015-03-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s the latest narrative spin: River Oaks demolished a cluster of five decaying buildings on the property last year over

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